[Zope] Re: Java re-invents DTML :-)

[Chris Withers]

Kari-Hans Kommonen wrote:
> Just a comment from a relative newbie (part time (10%) inhouse developer):
> 
> DTML is easier to grasp as a beginner. 

Actually that's not true, ZPT is actually easier, but currently has less 
documentation than DTML...

> Having spent now a lot of time in order to manage to do new things with 
> DTML and encountering so much uncertainty of what I manage to get 
> working (and still often not really understanding what made the 
> difference since the apparent logic I figured out has let me down so 
> many times now), it will take a long time before I could change my stuff 
> from DTML to ZPT and risk losing the ability to at least think that I 
> understand what is going on...

The point for me is that ZPT is more explicit than DTML, so you won't have to 
second guess why soem small change you made has an apparently large effect, as 
is often the case in DTML.

cheers,

Chris